Directors and Staff

These are the folks who will be working hard to offer information, creative ideas for exploration and adventure, and a program organized to provide an optimum learning opportunity during your four-week stay in Dublin.

Professor Marianne Blair
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Professor Blair is a full professor and the Study Abroad Director at The University of Tulsa College of Law, where she has taught Family Law, Civil Procedure, and International and Comparative Family Law for the past twenty-three years.  She has taught in the Dublin summer program in 1999 and 2005, and served as Resident Director in 2009.  Professor Blair is co-author of the first American casebook in the field of comparative and international family law, Family Law in the World Community, and a contributing author to the leading treatise on adoption law, Adoption Law and Practice (ed., Joan Hollinger).  She has published numerous articles on topics related to adoption law and international and comparative family law. Professor Blair has also served as Chair of the Family and Juvenile Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools and as a member of the Oklahoma Adoption Law Reform Committee, through which she participated in drafting the Oklahoma Adoption Code. She has received several teaching awards at the College of Law, and in 1992 she was one of the recipients of The University of Tulsa Outstanding Teacher Award.  

 
Mary Holmes

Mary administers the Study Abroad Program at the University of Tulsa College of Law.  She assists students with the application and enrollment process for the Dublin Program, and facilitates student communication with Stetson University for the China, Argentina, and London Programs.  Questions about your application to the program, internship application, enrollment, housing arrangements, health insurance, or other general questions can be directed to Mary at (918) 631-5038 or mary-holmes@utulsa.edu.  Mary has a Masters of Library & Information Studies and divides her time between the Study Abroad Program and the Mabee Legal Information Center.

 

Amanda Mims

Amanda Mims, from Colleyville, Texas, is a second year student at the University of Tulsa College of Law and will act as Student Assistant for the 2012 Dublin Program. In 2010 she received her Bachelors Degree from Austin College located in Sherman, Texas, where she double majored in History and Communication Studies and minored in Philosophy. She attended the Study Abroad Dublin Program last summer, where she fell in love with Ireland. An avid traveler, Amanda is looking forward to returning to Ireland and getting to see some of the places she missed on her last visit and emerging herself in the culture for a second time. Some of Amanda's favorite past times are cooking, watching movies, and snorkeling. Email Amanda with questions froma student's perspective about the Dublin program at amanda-mims@utulsa.edu.

 
Professor Mary Catherine Lucey
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In addition to teaching European Community Competition Law, Prof. Lucey assists us as the Administrative Coordinator with University College Dublin.  For a more complete biography, see the Dublin Faculty web page.